Parallelogram With Equal Sides

My Rhombus socks are done!  I actually finished them on May 22nd (four days ago), but was waiting for a non-rainy day to take a good picture of them.  I did take pictures then with the socks on my feet so I could post my cast-off posts on the relevant KALs.  Here's the best of those shots, but it doesn't do the socks justice.  The color and look of them are so much prettier in real life!  (I'm posting a big picture so you can see the details better.)

Completed Rhombus Socks

Today is actually a sunny day - hallelujah!  But it's also warm so now my feet are sweaty, and I don't want to put them into my pretty new socks.  I did lay them out for a flat picture, but it also didn't turn out so great.  Oh well, here you go anyway:

Another view of Rhombus

I had finished these on Sunday, just in time for the next clue on my Artichoke mystery socks.  Unlike many occasions when the clue is released at midnight, this one didn't come out until late afternoon on Sunday (much to the chagrin of many Ravelry knitters who apparently put their entire lives on hold while they sat at the computer with knitting needles poised at the ready). 

Unfortunately, there seems to be an issue or two with the latest clue where the stitch counts are off.  First, I had to pick up two more stitches than called for down the heel flaps to form the gusset.  And then I had to adjust to get an even number of stitches across the heel (not sure why I had an odd number, hopefully it doesn't come back to bite me in the butt later).  The weird part is that since the pattern stitch numbers were off by two, my having the extra gusset pick-ups actually meant that I ended up being able to follow the pattern as written.  At least on the first sock.

I just finished all of the gusset decreases, so I'll be starting the second sock later.  Let's see if it has the same issues-that-magically-worked-out as the first one. 

Fingers crossed!